AMIDA will develop and expand the research vision that we initiated in the previous (still ongoing)
EU-IST AMI Integrated Project, to understand better and build new support for human communication.
The ground-breaking research that we shall undertake in AMIDA will span several traditionally
separate disciplines, including:

Multimodal structure and content analysis, including the modelling of individuals and groups,
through the joint processing of multiple (multimodal) information channels (audio, visual,
slides, handwriting, and white board activity);

HCI, application prototyping, evaluation, and system integration.

The AMIDA research work will directly build upon the recognized achievements and large multimodal
corpora (becoming a standard reference in the area of multimodal processing) resulting from
AMI. However, there will also be a very challenging shift in emphasis to live meetings with remote
participants, using affordable commodity sensors (such as webcams and cheaper microphones), and
targeting the development of advanced videoconferencing systems featuring new functionalities such
as (1) filtering, searching and browsing; (2) remote monitoring; (3) interactive accelerated playback;
(4) meeting support; and (5) shared context and presence.
While addressing additional scientific challenges (such as real-time processing and processing of
lower quality audio and visual signals), AMIDA has also raised the exploitation transfer potential
through genuine integration of the AMIDA industrial partners collaborating on common prototypes and
applications. Finally, through its "Community of Interest" (CoI)1, AMIDA will also actively engage
beyond the consortium to spread awareness and knowledge.